‘Armchair liberal’ Leslie Holmes, 65, travelled for an hour to get to the demonstration, adding: ‘I’m not going to be armchair any more.

‘I don’t want to live in a country where my friends aren’t included, and my friends are fearful, and my children are going to grow up in a world that’s frightening, and my granddaughters can look forward to being excluded from jobs and politics and fulfilling their potential, so I’m here for them.’

However, tensions remain fraight in other parts of the nation, including in the capital Washington DC, where a group of protesters chanted ‘not my president’ and ‘no Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA’.

Philadelphia (Picture: Reuters)

Fort Worth, Texas. (Picture: AP)

New York (Picture: Getty)

Philadelphia (Picture: Rex)

New York (Picture: AP)

Nadia Gavino, 25, whose father is Peruvian and whose mother has Mexican and Lithuanian heritage, attended a protest in Chicago, Illinois.

Ashley Lynne Nagel, 27, protested in Denver, and said: ‘I have a leader I fear for the first time in my life.

‘It’s not that we’re sore losers. It’s that we are genuinely upset, angry, terrified that a platform based off of racism, xenophobia and homophobia has become so powerful and now has complete control of our representation.’